BNP To Field Lowest Number Of Local Election Candidates In A Decade

The British National Party will field their lowest number of candidates for over a decade in local elections across England this year, with just 90 as opposed to 450 four years ago.

Anti-fascist campaigners Hope Not Hate reported that the far right party only realistically has the possibility of winning two or three seats, with Sharron Wilkinson, the BNP’s only current county councillor, deciding not to defend her seat in Burnley.

No BNP candidates will stand for Mayor in previous hotspots like Doncaster and North Tyneside. Just one candidate will stand in Yorkshire for a council seat.

BNP leader Nick Griffin

The exiled former BNP MEP Andrew Brons is keeping his options limited at the elections, with his newly formed British Democratic Party fielding just three candidates. In total, there are only 142 candidates of the far-right and extreme nationalists standing.